The Sun. — London, England, 1810-11-19 00:00:00

r cx el, u j coal - I. be" ;Stet' and ,v ice; bt ;0,00 is~~a~~ fe ared that wore vessels will go ashore. °II 4 c ow ed i" sew' y U ~ y ~lr at Sel' Or ; 5 1,4 , 31,1 7 ,o lo co, t Lo T.Sfig‘ odi es; l o 110ic > c )'`l rtto u • th e th ' same of which have troops on board, and o:°then provisions, bound to Cadiz. he Aile with her con voy bound to Cadiz, () t 6 al tars and the Mediterranean, consisting of about tva sail, had proceeded about 50 leagues to the :.vest wir4 °f the Scilly Islands, when a heavy gale of t: l4 9111 ° on, in whi c h' I lie greater part of the con ywere d ispersed, about twelve of which are ar . he • A r e with th e L'Ai rri g/e. 'LI yesterday morning his Majesty's ship t 4 4e/ne, 0 118 guns, Capt. C. M. FABIAN, with the ?.% of he r main-topsail-yard, in a heavy gale of I t ' ; '" ' in which she lost her convoy, bound to Brazils, from Portsmouth, one of which, the : 4 h CHARLES WI L SON master, from Hull, 1 4 a car g o , bound to Ri o d e Janeiro, put in here mo rn i ng.. This 4ast e. tram rrntornming as the b r ig Anztulator, READ, 4, Opotto, with a cargo of wine, fruit, bound to Lisb,n, was working through the : 11 "' she miss e d :oars , an d d ri f te d as h ore on th e ro und ' under Mount Batton, where she will go to 'eces• Part of the cargo , i t i s ex p e ct e d, w ill be s aved. It • ' Is n'Av blowing a gale from the Westward, and It is Ar • tw, rive d the French ship La Ch ar l es , mounting 71Y-two 18 -pouniers, and a comptimL-nt of 200 : en, taken after a long chase by his Majes•y's ship ;Moj a, of 38 n Hou. Capt. F. P. hay, which arri ved here this morning from a cruize off the western Islands. M '.;esty's ship Amelhyst, of 36 guns, Capt. in ALTO N , as delained an d sen t i n he r e thi s morn gthe Acn, , r i c in vessel Frx, Caplan' Puri., from ew7York, with a caigo bound to Cli Arrive d the Americ a n s hi er Z o di ac , C LARL , tron, to tkl ° ll , with a cargo bound to New-York, was f e a t u re d by the Eleanore French privateer, of and n, n a; , °t• Maloes, commanded by Capiain.BLAcK, a ud recaptured by his Majesty's ship Shannon, of tl l B : t ' un s , Captain P. B. V. BttoKE ; also arrived the og Su rpr i ze, Russ, from GLisgow, with a cargo li ° l 4 ild to New Providenc e , Wi,l,6ptUred on the 19th z t. oth CaPe Ortegal by the French privateer Grande w ind so on alter sire encountered a heavy gate of 7 1 nd in which she lost her fore -mast, bowsprit, and 41 a,in-jop an -mast, an d rece i ve d co n s i dera bl e damage, d was fallen in with and re-captured by the Con lli gun-brig, Lient. MUTT, on Art Arrih' s ved .the 9th inst. Mtie , ly's ships Courageux, of 74 gu ns, from Purist - numb ; Medusa, of 38 guns from il tl Westwa r d ; E sp i eg l e, of 18 guns, from Lis ton, with dispaiches ;no news—the hostile armies b e4 ; lain ed .the same p os iti ons ; a l so a rr i v ed th e r 'eg digneS) HonosoN master, from Gibraltar, and Ist u lt.--no ne ws; .vinelast fro m Lisb on , w i t h passengers ; so il e d on t h e also arrived the bLrk Adven trer. HOLLAND master, Jrom Saloe, with a cargo of and cork, bound to this port for orders ; the 'uor g Privateer, Capt. TREGOVVITH, from a cruize; !nd a Vessel from Malaga, with a cargo of wine, and s under quarantine. Lo ORTSUOUTH, Nov. 18,—The Galatea, Captain s Ac i , is ordered to take out Getieral‘NionTlN 'ALE and suite to Lisbon ; the General is arrivdd here ' and gees out to succeed General CATLIN Ri " l in 'PORD ; t h e Galatea will sail on Monday even i g f the wind is fair. a Q'arue in'yesterday hi s M a j est y' s s hip s D onega l ; 4 Revenge, from a cruize off" cherbourgh ; and the Intelligent gun-brig, with a convoy from the West- Ward. 00 Sailed yesterday the Rattler gun brig, Captain b. "DoN, on a cruize. ba vElt, Nov. B.—P asse d by f or L on d on the ship i°ll7/ namilion,T H o mrsok , f rom H on d uras ; an d the Liverpool Packet, KENNARD, trom Virginia. tr St ev ening a Fre nc h p r i vateer a t tac k e d a lit t l e ha rbour Sloop at scarcely a stone ' s-throw from the 4 but the crew, though few in number, mad e so stoma resistance, that with the aid of a gun Sit", they completely' beat the Frenchman off '. "Ix others were in sight then and the whole of the evening. Isl.gtNns or SCILLY, Nov. 14.—Came in the r`Phiting schotiner from Lisbon, having dispatches r eul Lord WELLINGTON ; but nothing it: suffered to transpire relative to our army in Portugal, which Place shy left on the 3I st ultimo. • bE A y River and Nov . B.—Arrived several ships from the remain. The privateer of 65 men captured by the Phipps s choon er near Calais, proves to he the Barterer S'e :lie: sh e took the Phipps for a merchant vessel and a n him alongside, and fired a volley of musketry and Wotinded some of the Phipps's men ; however the ()tllpliment was instantly returned by a broadside, s n d with such compound interest that the privateer _ li nk, barely l eaving time to take out the prisoners ; She h ad made no captures. .Cs d )6 raker, re of , :steer aidn , d 13'3 :ry of , ea' bed ; _ pa st )000 t be wt 3 d 1;0 0 1 Ici"" 3 - P et' , 0 0J bo-lC clod' • fili s6 ; e lite ' rs sh l ? rtil".,,:to , } 0 0 10( 1 4 , 0 111, 1 - d e L., t 1 , 1 , 5 0 11'- aLIV da i~~ . 4Ct t.°l" 5 r r)Or „to? `l'6 svr r"' 11 01 " - t en-' vat" - v ol s ' 11° a , ii'" , s 5b19 For"' SECOND EDITION. SUN OFFICA, THREE O'CLOCK, P. M. We stop the press to state, that Dispatches have ust been received from Sir JOHN STEWART, con- taining the account of the defeat of MLRAT, in his attempt upon Sicily. The following is an. abstraet of the Dispatches t 4. WAR DEPARTMINT, Nov. 19, 1810. " A Dispatch has been this morning received from Lieutenant-General Sir JOHN STEWART, dated Messina, 22d Sept. 1810, reporting, that at day light on the morning of the 18th Sept. the great body of the enemy's flotilla appeared to be pre paring an attempt at landing between Messina and the Faro. While their movements engaged the attention of the main body of the British force, a debarkation was effe6ted by a detachment under General CAVIGNAC, near St. Stefano, about seven miles to the Southward. This corps consist ed of about 3500 men, Corsican and Neapolitan. tioops, .who had crossed the Streights in about .40 large boats, and gained the Sicilian shore before the dawn. " Upon the first alarm, Major-General CAMP- BELL had repaired to the menaced quarter, where 'he found the German Riflemen engaged with the enemy, and the 215 t Regiment, and part of the 3d Girrnans; occupying the post of Mili, to pre vem the advance of the French upon Messina, a, well as the mountain pass,s above it. As day he perceived the enemy already on the heights, and extending trona thence to the beach ; but shortly attcr they began to waver, and those neaicht the boats to commence a precipitate em- barkatiou, in consequence of .a sudden and vigo rous attack made upon their flank, by the 2d Bat- talion of Light Infantry, under Lieutenant-Colonel FISCH ER. " Major-General CAMPERLL observing this move ment of irresolutton, pushed forward with the 215 t Regiment, and 3d Germans, along the beach, and thus succeeded in cutting off all the enemy's troops who had gained the heights, bt,sid,:s some whom the boats abandoned. " We have taken about 900 prisoners, including a Colonel, and two Officers of the General Staff, together with the colours of the Corsican Legion. " , Besides these, the enemy lost many in killed and wounded, particularly in the boats pulling off iron) the shores. " Ot the British only three private soldiers were wounded. " General CAMPBELL speaks in high terms of the conduct of Lieut.-Colonels ADAM and FISCHER, and of Captain A'CourtT. He also reports the zeal and enthusiasm shewn by the, peasantry of the nejobouring villages, who came down with the greatest alacrity to the assistance of our troops." Dispatches from Lord WELLIN GTON reached Downing-street at half-past two o'clock. They were brought by tile Herring schooner, for the safe ty of which great apprehensions were entertained. She was in fa& nearly lost at the bayk of the Isle of', Wight.—The Dispatches are of an old date. An Inquisition was taken on Thursday, in the house of Mr. Ray, in Charles-strcet , Berkeley-square, on the body of Francis Baring, Esq. who shot him self at his house, No. 48, in the same street, on the preceding day. Especial care and secrecy have been' observed to keep the proceedings of the Coroner's Cort private. The deceased was a nephew of the latei Sir Francis ',Baring ; and it appeared, by the testimony of two witnesses, that he had been subjed to great despondency for several months, ar i s ing, as it %A as supposed, from pecuniary embar rassment. Having sent out his valet to order din ner, Mr. Baring locked himself in his dressing worn, and a report of a pistol alarmed two female servants in the house. Two neighbours, Messrs. Robinson and Ray, broke into the room, and found the dec,:as ed lying on his face dead, a ball having entered his forehead, which shot away part of his head. He had a pistol in each hand, and- one was found loaded. Verdict—lnsanity. CORN EXCHANGE, Nov. 19.—The frt sh arrivals of Wheat coastwise to-day make a tolerable supply, with part of last weeks' foreign (upwards of 4000 quarters), sales of fine are brisk, at a small advance ; Barley in short supply, and rather dearer; Beans yt the two kinds likewise ; Malt and Wl , ite Pease at little fluctuation ; Oats are again in short supply, anditlso quoted somewhat dearer; sales of Flout at last week's redudion. SP2II7V. SITTING OV THE CORTES, Ocr. ig. The discussion on the Liberty of the Press was re sumed. OLIVEROS said, that at present, in the great per secution of the French Church, this liberty was pro hibited ; and that in Spain lodges (of Free. Masons) are establishing, which will 'destroy religion ; that obscure intrigues are formed in darkness ; and that had it not been, for the people, a revolu►ion would have broke out in Madrid in 1793; which- would have deluged the kingdom with blood ; that if this liberty was not established, those persons would come to have the upper hand, who affect repub licanism it order to obtain power—to be Kings, Dukes, Peers, Scc.; and that, in fide, by means of the liberty of the press, England is a steady and moral nation. MORALES added, that neither a Holy Father nor a Council could be mentioned which prohibited writing. It was then put to the vote, whether the point of the politic ii liberty of the press bad been suffici ently discussed; wlin it was almost unani►nously agreed that it bad. It was then discussed, whether the voting should be public or secret. On this there were different opinions; and though ARGUELLES was of opinion the votes should be taken in the ordinary forth by those who approved rising up, other Deputies ex presed a wish that the votes should be private, be cause thus there would be more freedom. On this some debate took place ; and although all the means were had recourse to, to support this opinion s yet LUXAN rose and observed, that it was the wish of the Spanish nation that they should all be : heroes; that it required firmness and constancy, not only in thoSe who were in favour of the liberty of the press, but in those who were against it ; that the nation would look with the same aspeL•t upon those who heroically gave their vote for the liberty of the press, and upon those who with virtue and constancy toted against it; since both acted equally from a sense of duty, and were equal in its eyes. The question was then put, and it way almost unanimously carried tlut the votingshould be public. SITTING OF OCTOBER 19. A letter was read from the Minister of Finance, in winch he informed the Cort-s, hat the council of Finance was sworn in, and. also its,toferior - Y declared his opinion in favour of the L',), , rty of the press; and :iton wishing to speak at greater length, he was infortned that the diScussion was closed , The Cortes to a vote on the plan for the liberty' of - the, pr, ich took place pub 14y, and every Deputy was asked his opinion by name. The votes being counted, • the result was, that the Political Liberty of the Press uns carried by 70 votes against 32, of which last nine Were only against it tOr the present. The other three articles of the Ilan were then discussed and ap proved of. SITTING OF OCTOBER 27: The Sitting was secret ; it lasted from seven in the evening of yesterday, till half past three in the afternmin'of this day. What ought we not to expeet froth our august Congrk.ss, when, we see it, at the expellee of unin- • terrupted fatigue, occupied night and day in the great work of the liberty and happiness of Spain ? Immortal glory, eternal gratitude to the Fathers their Country, whose names shall be pronounced with respect and gratitude by all future generations ! The Senors Don •Joaquin Blake, Don • Gabriel Ciscar, and Don Pedro Agar, hatie been al.) oin,ed to the Executive power ; and to supply the places of the two first, who are absent, Senor Puig, and the Marquis del Palacio. SITTING OF OCTOBER 28. At ten in the morning the Sitting commenced in private, and continued till four in the afternoon, when it was made public. The Senors Don Pedro Agar, the Marquis del PalaciO, and agn Josef Maria, Puig ent,Ted to take the oath. Senor Agar took it in the established form. The Marquis of Palacio followed, who swore to the two first articles of the formula ; and to the third he added, "'I do swear, without prejudice to the oaths which I have already taken to King Ferdinand the \Witt." The Meeting and the Public were sur prized., The President observed, that this aet did not admit of more words than those;that were set doWn, " I acknOwledge and swear ;" but that, it the Marquis was not properly acquainted with the formula, it should be repeated to hint. The Secre tary accordingly read it a second time, and the Mar quis observed, that the point Was delicate, and an affair of conscience ; that he did not refuse to take the oath, but that he bad made the addition to it to to quiet his conscience. M. ARGUELLES stated, that the oath should be taken in the established form; remarking, as well Garcia Herreros, and Munos Torrero, that the Marquis was called there to take the oath, as all the other bodies and authot hies had done ; in the mean time they demanded, that the ceremony should be suspended, and that the Marquis should retire be low the bar; but he requested to be heard, which was rilused. Then Senor Puig. advanced to take the oath, which he did according to the formula, and took his seat: near the PresidentlSenor Agar be tug on the right, and Puig on the left. It was resolved that a letter should be sent to the Regency, acquainting then, that an unforeseen accident had prevented the Marquis del Palacio from undertaking the office to which he had been appointed. The Marquis then begged leave to speak, which was granted. He said, from below the bar, that he had always believed, that the unalterable essence • of an oath consisted in the manner in which'it was stated, and not in the precise and unifolin words of the reply. He begged the Meeting to acquit him' of any intention of disobedience; and repeated, that what he proposed was an addition on account of a. scruple qt conscience; and that he was ready to take the oath in thS form he first proposed. This was opposed by many of the Deputies, who required that the question should be put, whether it should be admitted or not. It was gilt to the vote, and carried almost unanimously in the negTive. The Marquii 4gairk begged permission to . .;p,.ak, to which the President repli. d, " His til,,j sty cannot hear the Marquis del Palat . :io any more, and orders him to retire." Scarcely hail he quitted the meeting, when CAP , MANY having declared that it WAIF' be proper to se.f. cure his person, he rushed towards the door for the purpose of escaping; and silence being imposed by the President, a resaftion wss instantly passed lot his detention in the guard-house of the troops. on duty at the Cortes. Several Deputies 4 , :ished to discuss the further proceedings against the Marquis ; bur t as agreed that it was not proper to piss to !hat discussion, it being a matter of more consequence` that the Re• gency should be installed. The President instantly rose, and the new Regency, accompanied by t‘velve Deputies, proceeded to the gate of the Hall, and -went to the house of the Ayuntarnienio, with four Deptr ies and the Secretary. They were recei% e d on their passage with all due hf- flours. In the mean time the proposal for securing the Marquis in a proper manner was debated 5 and alter a long discussion, be was ordered to be.kept in cus tody in the Guard-house, as had been proposed by Tagle. Senor LuxAN, the Secretary, reported that the new Regency had been installed: he stAted, that heir pre,decesSors had come out to the gate or the Hall to receive them, and conduiied them to the cabinet ; and that. Senor Saavedra, Win had acted ai President, had seated himself on' the left of Senor Puig; that Sedor Castanos and •Lirdizabal, taking oft their saShei, had 'put them upon the new members of Regency; that tiie Minister of Diintches had read, standing, the two decrees of the Cortes. These decrees were in substance ; the first, that the Cortes, in consequence of the irpeated , requests of the Members of Regency to be dismis•ed, 113 d agreed to receive the same, and to appoint 4.he Senors therein rvmed. The second decree stated, that in regard tlint two of the Senors appointed were absent, the Cortes had elected two others to s,.:pply their place until their arrival (9. Some Deputies insisted that the sittings should. be declared perrnanen , , until the question relating to the Marquis was•dt tercnined, and - a successw ap pointed ; but the PRESIDENT observed, that in coo- sequence of the Regency being lawfully constituted by two Members, it would be advisable to wait a little, and •to take some 'relaxation, as the silting had lasted from ten in the morning till after six in the evening. It .was therefore adjourned to ❑ine at night. (r) Senor Puig entered upon his office as has been men. tioned ; and the Marquis de Caste.l4r has bezn ;ip pointed in the place of the Marquis del Palacio. THE ANNESLET CONTEST. POLICE OFFICE, -DULE-STFIEET. DUBLIN, Nov. 14.—1 n consequence of ah appli cation made at this Office, upon the part of the Earl of Annesley, for a warrant against the Lady , com monly called the Countess of . Aotiesley, the Magis► crates appointed Monday, the 12th inst. for rii - e pur pose of entering into a previous investigation of the nature of the transaction, upon which his Lordship's claiM to their ifnterposition was grounded. Atmonr noon the Earl arrived, accompanied by Lord 'How th and his law agent. He stated, that he attended there fbr the purpose of vindicating • from a foul aspersion that had been cast upon' it, by the distribution of a hand-bib, announcing the loss of a boy, called therein " time Earl of Annesley ;" the object of which had been manifested by an in sinuation at the late trial that he had been in strumental in procurin4 the rtisappearance of boy, and also influenced Mr. Marcus Aiinesley, who was summoned upon that trial, to withdraw, when, in fact, it appeared that he had been purposely sent out of the way by M - r. Jetfe•ys. It appeared by the testimony of John Thrrett,who stated himself to be Agent to the Londonderry Mail-coach, that on the night of Sunday, Oct. 28, he was accosted by a Woman apparently disguised, bat who afterwards turned out to be Lady Annesley This was in College Green. She disired witness to bring her up to the Derry Coach. She asked depo nent whether he knew her, and he answered in tie negative. Upon this she told hiM who she was, and she wished to send a young person, who was to have given e , idence upon her trial, but who had been found too young foi ,be purpose, to 0 vagth She called her Miss Kelly. That havi ng come up to the coach, she partly went in, and conversed with a young person then there, in the dress (4 a female, to whom she gave a parcel of some kind or other, tied up in a handkerchief.. That she tobk leave of this young person with many tears, recommending her to the care of Barrett, and desired hint to tell the guard of the coach not to take any money froni the child. Witness swore that he I.a, since heard, and now believes, that the person so committed to his charge was the boy commonly called Lord An ' nesley. He further stated, that the boy's mother promised to procure him a situation in the Post Office, as a reward for his fidelity in executing this Upon this evidence, an appFcation was made by Lord Arnesley fora warrant to apprehend tlis Lady, upon whOse behalf a letter front her was . produced and read, which stated,Ethar;she knew ever foe boy's leaving town, but denied that she h a d cver insn-luot ed that Lord Anbesley,was the cause of it ttiet, on the contrary, .she bad written to 'iNiii:jor Sian, Lord Annesley's friend, to acquaint him that ste knew the .child was safe, and had returned to school. . Mr, Dowling, the law agent for Lady Aunesiey, declared his conviction that Lord Annesley was in no manner whatever concerned in the disappearance of the boy; upon which, and Mr. Doing dcci_tr ing that his instructions were to proceed in t t.e inentcause forthwith, to prove the legitiantcy of Ore boy, and legality of his claim to the Earldom, Lord, Annesley consented for the present to withdraw application for a warrant against the Lady, and to take no further steps in the intended prosecution to: a conspiracy against his Lord,hip.